Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Royals

Is it better to be Love-Oriented, Money-Oriented, or
Art-Oriented?

The answer is that everything is good on it’s own phase, and
that in particular, we all can just lay back and have a good time without being
oriented on anything. Sometimes when we get too productive, which is the best
thing, we tend to little by little flutter away from the things we cared, or
used to care about. Sometimes we all just need to put our heads in the clouds
and just have a particular good time, and keep it real. You can never get
enough laziness in a particular day—however remember your principals of living,
no one wants to regret for not doing they love due to sleeping, right?.

Anyways, the first paragraph probably doesn’t actually
explain the rest of this content, the first paragraph is just a refreshment
from the particular stiffness on how this post is going to sound.

As many of you may have known, I just got my first magazine
feature on Estela Magazine’s Issue X(Le Beaute Issue II). I am totally grateful
of everything, I mean like, I am thankful for God’s amazing support in this
journey, I am thankful of such a supporting family, I am grateful of such an
AMAZING team.

I decided to just gather my friends and plan a
Lorde-inspired shoot. I’m a HUGE fan of her, I mean like her voice is literal
perfection and her look is just otherworldly-next door girl. It’s the type of
look that never bores you even though the look is possessed most likely by
girls who are most likely to get bored of you. Since I live in super-Asian Surabaya,
of course my version of Lorde, is Asian. Not trying to be racist, but this
photographer right here would appreciate a more variety in facial features(I
mean like, a more interracial choice I guess).

Anyways, we were going for a lazy royal sort of look. Just
like that look that’s just too glam to give a damn. I decided to shoot my
friend Catharina since she just got a Lorde inspired hair, and there’s just
this exceptionally unusual beauty that’s so classic in her that I can’t resist
to photograph. Of course I had to gather all my amazing team mates for this,
like Lorde sang, we’re on each other’s teams. HUGE shout out to my favorite
hair stylist, Livia Kriwangko. Livia learns all of her hairstyling from D.I.Y-s
and such but her work is exceptional! She can give you any type of braid!.
Pricillia Lumantoro does the make up and you know she’s always awesome right? I
mean just go look at her blog, how is she not amazing?. Oh and special thankies
to Kevin Jackson for helping me with the props, you work amazing in front and
behind the lens(and your welcome for the CAS hours).

I am so thrilled hearing Estela loving the images. I was
super insecure because more “mature” perspectives marked the pictures to show
distaste the facial features as a beauty shoot(oh since Estela’s new issue is a
beauty issue), but then I’m super glad they find the extra quirk in the classic
beauty. I am still thrilled up to today on my first magazine feature, and my
issue appears the second on the editorial, how COOL is that?

"C(RUSH)"

Honey and a Smack

I think that’s what O is fond of

The constant impressions about drapes and whatever Gianni
grants

Whatever the new temperature defines a cut

Whatever inking has leaked a linking

The bond, the bond of a home

The home, the home of a bond

I think it’s scary

How much time consumes a thought of pure gold

One hour for the smile

The other for the insecurities

The fear of defining, the fear of falling, and

The fear of loving

An idea so old yet so new, so thick yet so thin

An idea only a fox as white as snow may comprehend

Because my heart has been frozen by art for so long

It may’ve turned a much lighter shade than my

Skin

A casualty about a clingy retard

How a M.Cover sounded good

And just how a favorite is a frush

A favorite crush or a fucking rush

Honestly

It’s best to play along

And never show the camouflage

But then

It’s a road from the rush

To the extreme

It’s forever

A

Rush

Or A

Crush

I think the poem above clearly describes who I am right now.
An older friend the other day told me how life moves so fast after seventeen,
and I do feel like the years are passing by slowly before. I am soon to be
legal, I am soon to be seen by the world seriously. And the idea of being
young, that’s the heart where I will always belong. The passion, the dreams,
the lingering feeling of just being who I am. The urge to be on the peak, then
realizing how an immense amount of time is being taken up just to be on top. In
the end of the day, is this fast life worth the ride, or is fast life worth
just the art.

Then there’s a anti-accelerating version of the part of life
above that plays along. The ethics of a bond. The love between an individual
and it’s surroundings. Seeing the beauty on how individuals bond with each
other and create a complication in expression. Both of the descriptions above
scream the term ART. In the end of the day, however, a lane should be picked.
To be on top or to have a bond. To be Wintour or be the housewife down the
lane. It’s all up to us to become which artistic portraiture we end up being.
Even though it’s a subjective matter of perspectives, it’s not about giving up
on something for the other, but SACRIFICING one to the other. And to reach an
optimum white or black in that is so hard. We humans, live in the grey lane.

Wow, umm..that’s much of a riddle eh, but whatever. I know
I’m always against the idea of love taking over, but then I read Daul Kim’s
suicide story and I just felt like, it’s best to be an artist when you’re
lonely, but then at a point I need a vacation from the loneliness and start
living. I think that The Photographic Sense is striking back on vacations, and
well..just wait for my next strike.

I live in a city you never see on screens. Anyways, I’ll
probably watch Mean Girls or some other movie since my wifi is literally not
working (so not fetch…) (edit: I ended up watching “To Be Fat Like Me” and it’s
actually an AWESOME movie! It teaches us so much on how society react to the
obese and how to react to it logically! Anyways, how was your day guys? Leave
your thoughts BE-L-OW!)

THE PHOTOGRAPHIC SENSE

Royals

PAR. Reinhardt Kenneth

Model. Catharina Avellia

Hairstylist. Livia Kriwangko

MUA. Pricilia Lumantoro

Photographer’s Assistant. Kevin Jackson

To Buy Le Beaute Issue II or See the Editorial Version of "Royals", click here

I prefer to be love-oriented.. lol... hi RK!! how are ya? I just get out from my "antisocial mode" and now happily chillin.. not really happy actually bcos I am a bit worried about my UN result but yah hope for the best. Congrats for your first feature! how many times I've told you that you deserve it? I'm still looking forward to have my own, haha. Yup, everything flies super fast after you taste your maturity at the age of 17. But the point is, you don't have to lose your young soul in your aging corpse. That "young soul" will always drive us to something that surprises us. I am not old enough to give you that thoughts so you shouldn't believe me actually lol but that's my kind-of-motto recently so... just wanna share my thoughts.

I'm not good on commenting about artwork so this is gonna be so cliche: you have that different shades, different point of view in every frame you share in this blog, and those seem to be a fresh water for my thirsty art-mind.. well done and way to go, RK! hoping to see you one day!